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The 8 Inch Equatorial Telescope, by Troughton & Simms, London, in the South Equatorial House at Melbourne Observatory, South Yarra, Victoria, circa 1880s.

The telescope was acquired by Melbourne Observatory in 1874, in time for observations of the Transit of Venus. It was the main equatorial telescope at the observatory until the observatory closed in 1945. The telescope remains in its original building at the observatory, and is still used by the Astronomical Society of Victoria.

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Photoheliograph in the Photoheliograph House at Melbourne Observatory.